Video: Muslim author says, “Profile me!”

posted at 10:12 am on November 30, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

Asra Nomani from The Daily Beast hits the nail on the head with one statement to CNN, which is that the current security situation is set up more to offend everyone equally than to actually catch terrorists. Nomani, herself a Muslim, advocates profiling as the basis of a rational security protocol that looks for the threat and uses resources for that purpose, rather than harassing women traveling with breast milk, as an example. We already profile in other security efforts, Nomani reminds us, such as the war on drugs, where Colombians get much more scrutiny as a matter of course. We also profile in the opposite direction in visa-waiver programs. Why not add profiling — a technique used in law enforcement for serial murders and rapes — as a tool to enhance airline security and end the waste of time and effort on TSA’s part?

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While walking Uptown Charlotte 5 young muslin men where standing on a corner preaching and in my opinion harassing – we got into a argument — they were calling everybody Fornicators — I didn’t like what they were doing and told them — they told me I was going to die — I said were all going to die — the guy pointed to me and said you will die tonite – saw two Police people after my wife dragged me down the block told them what happen – wife filed a report – Police dept turned it down and said I was not personally threatened – but did add they were getting tired of that group — Profile —

Well, for grand starts, the problem here is that in the hermetically sealed universe of the Obama Administration, profiling, common-sense solution to the current TSA procedures that it clearly is, is still RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!!!

We already profile in other security efforts, Nomani reminds us, such as the war on drugs, where Colombians get much more scrutiny as a matter of course.

Wait, so this is something we do? Haven’t we been told repeatedly that we don’t, and that’s first and foremost why we must never do so? Odd that no one is protesting for Colombian rights. So it’s OK when we treat them that way when dealing with drugs, but when dealing with those who want to kill us, it’s time to put on the kid gloves?

It’s a shame that more moderate Muslims don’t stand up and denounce hate filled rhetoric from their religious leaders — just like Teh Won did, finally, after 20 years of soaking up Rev. Wright teachings.

We here in Oklahoma just voted (by a 70%) majority on a law to change our constitution so that sharia or international law may not be considered in our courts. A Muslim here filed a lawsuit against it, and a Bill Clinton-appointed judge has issued an injunction against it. What is the point in voting, and how does one judge get to overturn 70% of the people. This is not right. I’m past angry, and I have no good feelings toward these people. They come here for our freedoms and then set about undoing them so we become the craphole countries they left. And I am appalled reading the comments in the newspaper at how many ignorant people there are here supporting these Muslims.

While I agree with you on this particular issue that sharia law is incompatible with our (American) laws, the only justification for the judges action is that we must be careful to prevent a ‘tyranny by the majority’. Just because 70% of voters are in favor of something does not necessarily make it right. Otherwise, we fall into the old definition of democracy i.e. ‘two wolves and one sheep voting on what is for dinner’.

That said, I think the judge was wrong here and should have stayed out of it.

The real issue here is security not people’s feelings. AQ will continue to attack our airline transport industry and will use people who do not fit the ‘profile’ everyone is going on about.

Yes, and AQ can also set off a bomb among the throng waiting to be screened. Or in a bar miles away full of sports fans bitching about TSA screening during commercial break. How much freedom should we dump to prevent those things from happening?

The pretense for the unconstitutionaly unreasonable searches is that we’re at war. It’s the War on Terror. However, those who we’re fighting are a subset of Muslims. A subset of Somalis. A subset of Egyptians and Palesinians.

There’s no excuse whatever to suspend the Constitution for any other group, even if it conceivably adds to security.

It was arguably wrong for the US to have interred Japanese during WW2 to prevent espionage and sabotage stateside. It would have been plain stupid to have interred Canadians, Bolivians and Kentuckians out of fairness.

While I agree with you on this particular issue that sharia law is incompatible with our (American) laws, the only justification for the judges action is that we must be careful to prevent a ‘tyranny by the majority’. Just because 70% of voters are in favor of something does not necessarily make it right. Otherwise, we fall into the old definition of democracy i.e. ‘two wolves and one sheep voting on what is for dinner’.
That said, I think the judge was wrong here and should have stayed out of it.
sirnapsalot on November 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM

how dare we protect our constitution from outside influences who wouldn’t understand our ideals even if they cared to